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...rediscovered belief? The American Bible Society says sales of Bibles since Sept. 11 are up 42% over the same period last year. Zales Jewelers is selling more crosses. The Religion News Service says Koran sales in the U.S. have quintupled since the attacks. Even after the initial burst of fervor subsided, many churches and synagogues report, attendance is up 5% to 10%, though some in places like Manhattan are still seeing twice as many people as before. Ministers find that people are not simply more interested in faith than before; they are especially interested in evil. "Since Sept...
Left undefined, the rhetoric of antiterrorism can easily be appropriated for other ends. The People’s Republic of China, for example, has used the current antiterrorism fervor to further repress the Uighur population of its western Xinjiang autonomous region. The Uighurs are predominantly Muslim, do not speak Chinese and have little cultural affiliation with China. A Uighur separatist movement has used bombings and assassinations to pursue its ends, and some of the separatists were trained in Afghanistan. However, China’s current crackdown has led to harsh punishments for peaceful expressions of dissent, including preaching Islam...
...university years. He has long been a defender and voice of the rural poor and has written extensively about rural Australian landscapes and the rural existence. A devout Catholic convert and fierce Republican, Murray’s work is always tinged with religious conscience and political Republican fervor, which he often uses to critique large segments of the population...
Like bin Laden, al-Zawahiri didn't have to endure poverty to fuel his revolutionary fervor. His great-uncle was the first secretary general of the Arab League, and he grew up wealthy. After breaking with his family and fleeing Egypt, he ended up tending to injured freedom fighters on the Afghan-Pakistan border. It was there that he met bin Laden, encouraging him to fight at the front instead of just financing...
Because terrorists of this new breed are motivated mainly by religious fervor and are part of a global network, they are tough to take out. "Traditional" terrorist groups like the I.R.A. or the Basque group ETA have had distinct nationalist goals; their operatives have been recruited from a relatively small pool, defined by national allegiance, and have often been eventually wooed into mainstream politics. Al-Qaeda is different. On the very fringe of the Islamic world, within which its methods provoke widespread revulsion, its political goal, if it can be said to have one, is the creation of a global...